- Rh-Catalyzed Deformylative Coupling of Salicylaldehydes with Acrylates and Acrylamides
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An unprecedented deformylative coupling of salicylaldehydes to acrylates and acrylamides under Rh-catalyzed conditions is reported. These deformylative couplings afforded o-hydroxycinnamates and o-hydroxycinnamamides with broad functional group tolerance and high chemoselectivity under milder reaction conditions.
- Rao, Maddali L.N.,Ramakrishna, Boddu S.
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p. 5677 - 5683
(2019/05/01)
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- Ethyl cinnamate derivatives as promising high-efficient acaricides against Psoroptes cuniculi: Synthesis, bioactivity and structure-activity relationship
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This paper reported the synthesis, structure-activity relationship (SAR) and acaricidal activity in vitro against Psoroptes cuniculi, a mange mite, of 25 ethyl cinnamate derivatives. All target compounds were synthesized and elucidated by means of MS, 1H- and 13C-NMR analysis. The results showed that 24 out of 25 tested compounds at 1.0 mg/mL demonstrated acaricidal activity in varying degrees. Among them, 6, 15, 26, 27 and 30 showed significant activity with median lethal concentration values (LC50) of 89.3, 119.0, 39.2, 29.8 and 41.2 μg/mL, respectively, which were 2.1- to 8.3-fold the activity of ivermectin (LC50=247.4 μg/mL), a standard drug in the treatment of Psoroptes cuniculi. Compared with ivermectin, with a median lethal time value (LT50) of 8.9 h, 27 and 30 showed smaller LTM50 values of 7.9 and 1.3 h, respectively, whereas 6, 15 and 26 showed slightly larger LT50 values of 10.6, 11.0 and 10.4 h at 4.5 μmol/mL. SARs showed that the presence of o-NO2 or m-NO2 on the benzene ring significantly improved the activity, whereas the introduction of a hydroxy, methoxy, acetoxy, methylenedioxy, bromo or chloro group reduced the activity. (E)-Cinnamates were more effective than their (Z)-isomer. Nevertheless, the carbon-carbon double bond in the acrylic ester moiety was proven not to be essential to improve the activity of cinnamic acid esters. Thus, the results strongly indicate that cinnamate derivatives, especially their dihydro derivatives, should be promising candidates or lead compounds for the development of novel acaricides for the effective control of animal or human acariasis.
- Zhang, Bingyu,Lv, Chao,Li, Weibo,Cui, Zhiming,Chen, Dongdong,Cao, Fangjun,Miao, Fang,Zhou, Le
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p. 255 - 262
(2015/04/22)
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- Two-photon uncaging with fluorescence reporting: Evaluation of the o-hydroxycinnamic platform
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This paper evaluates the ohydroxycinnamic platform for designing efficient caging groups with fluorescence reporting upon one- and two-photon excitation. The model cinnamates are easily prepared in one step by coupling commercial or readily available synthons. They exhibit a large one-photon absorption that can be tuned in the near-UV range. Uncaging after one-photon excitation was investigated by 1H NMR, UV-vis absorption, and steady-state fluorescence emission. In the whole investigated series, the caged substrate is quantitatively released upon photolysis. At the same time, uncaging releases a strongly fluorescent coproduct that can be used as a reporter for quantitative substrate delivery. The quantum yield of double bond photoisomerization leading to uncaging after one-photon absorption mostly lies in the 10% range. Taking advantage of the favorable photophysical properties of the uncaging coproduct, we use a series of techniques based on fluorescence emission to measure the action uncaging cross sections with two-photon excitation of the present cinnamates. Exhibiting values in the 1-10 GM range at 750 nm, they satisfactorily compare with the most efficient caging groups reported to date. Noticeably, the uncaging behavior with two-photon excitation is retained in vivo as suggested by the results observed in living zebrafish embryos. Reliable structure property relationships were extracted from analysis of the present collected data. In particular, the careful kinetic analysis allows us to discuss the relevance of the ohydroxycinnamic platform for diverse caging applications with one- and two-photon excitation.
- Gagey, Nathalie,Neveu, Pierre,Benbrahim, Chouaha,Goetz, Bernard,Aujard, Isabelle,Baudin, Jean-Bernard,Jullien, Ludovic
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p. 9986 - 9998
(2008/02/12)
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